Saturday, November 27, 2010

After Dan Hamhuis obliterated Douglas Murray last night with a crazy hipcheck, I got to thinking about the Canucks overall hittiness and the number of big checks we've already seen this season. I asked, in this post, if that was the best one? Some of you answered in the comments, reminded me of a few I'd forgotten about, and led me to this post.

We have seen six pretty excellent hits seen from the Canucks this season: Raffi Torres on Tyler Myers, Raffi Torres on Andrew Cogliano, Alex Edler on Matt Duchene, Andrew Alberts on Pavel Datsyuk, Keith Ballard on Evgeni Malkin, and Dan Hamhuis on Douglas Murray. It's a quarter of the way through the season and it's a good time for a poll. You'll find that poll to the right of this post in the sidebar. Which hit was the best one?

I have to go with Alberts on Datsyuk. Like Gord said above, he is notoriously difficult to hit and Alberts just outright destroyed him. Hamhuis on Murray was certainly pretty, but Alberts on Datsyuk was beautiful.

Ballard on Malkin was probably the worst one. Entertaining to watch, but Ballard took himself out of the play too, and he was still sitting on the ice while Malkin was back on his feet and after the puck.

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